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The danger of Steve Bannon on the National Security Council; Buckle up, folks, it's gonna get bumpy ...
Topic Started: Jan 30 2017, 06:43 AM (318 Views)
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While demonstrators poured into airports to protest the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies, another presidential memorandum signed this weekend may have even more lasting, wide-ranging and dangerous consequences. The document sounds like a simple bureaucratic shuffle, outlining the shape the National Security Council will take under President Trump. Instead, it is deeply worrisome.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-danger-of-steve-bannon-on-the-national-security-council/2017/01/29/ba3982a2-e663-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.96c66d00911f
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The president compounded this error of structure with an error of judgment that should send shivers down the spine of every American and our allies worldwide. Even as he pushed away professional security advice, Trump decided to make his top political advisor, Stephen K. Bannon, a permanent member of the NSC. Although the White House chief of staff is typically a participant in NSC deliberations, I do not know of another situation in which a political adviser has been a formal permanent member of the council.

Further, Bannon is the precisely wrong person for this wrong role. His national security experience consists of a graduate degree and seven years in the Navy. More troubling, Bannon’s role as chairman of Breitbart.com, with its racist, misogynist and Islamophobic perspectives, and his avowed desire to blow up our system of government, suggests this is someone who not only has no business being a permanent member of the most powerful consultative body in the world — he has no business being in a position of responsibility in any government.

Worse still, it is a sign of other problems to come. Organizing the NSC this way does not reflect well on national security advisor Michael Flynn — whether the bad decision is a result of his lack of understanding of what the NSC should do or because he is giving in to pressure from his boss.
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Trump needs to exclude the CIA from the NSC....They are part of the hidden government.................. :nana:
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Yeah, this just makes no sense.
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Jan 30 2017, 08:36 AM
Yeah, this just makes no sense.
No, protecting american citizens from Islamic terrorism makes no sense whatsoever, if you are an appeasement based liberal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKHUGvde7KU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYy_LF4iE4
Edited by Alt Right PEPE, Jan 30 2017, 09:35 AM.
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This guy has no national security background of any significance. Zero. Yet he's going to be the President's primary security adviser while those with actual national security backgrounds are no longer be participating in the meetings unless it is regarding their "area of expertise"?

That's a load of horse fecal matter. This bozo isn't going to make America safer, how can he? He has no freaking clue. Editing Briebart does not count as national security background.
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Including Bannon is obviously worrisome. I can't fathom what he could contribute to a national security meeting and I'm sure I don't want to know. Frankly, he's not fit to be a janitor at the White House and given some of the things he's said about government, he probably shouldn't even have a security clearance. Just as bad is that, while presidents always have a political strategy guy, they never come to NSC meetings. That would be even if Bannon were a normal human - which he's not. Bush specifically made sure Karl Rove never went anywhere near an NSC meeting. Obama did the same with David Axelrod. Political guys aren't supposed to be in on NSC gatherings.

The other odd thing is the exclusion of anyone from intelligence or the military (save for the Defense secretary) which is just weird. How is the NSC supposed to function without our main intel people or any uniformed military? What will they discuss exactly? Football scores?
"The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984
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Jan 30 2017, 10:45 AM
This guy has no national security background of any significance. Zero. Yet he's going to be the President's primary security adviser while those with actual national security backgrounds are no longer be participating in the meetings unless it is regarding their "area of expertise"?

That's a load of horse fecal matter. This bozo isn't going to make America safer, how can he? He has no freaking clue. Editing Briebart does not count as national security background.
Um...would you people (yes you people) at least do a little homework before going on a pearl clutching vituperation.

Bannon was an officer in the United States Navy for seven years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, serving on the destroyer USS Paul F. Foster as a Surface Warfare Officer in the Pacific Fleet and stateside as a special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon

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